Unfortunately you can't really control the way third party devs will adhere to your design Guidelines. Under iOS, at least, it's easier to notice a general comm

Unfortunately you can't really control the way third party devs will adhere to your design Guidelines. Under iOS, at least, it's easier to notice a general common sense, especially for the most used and popular apps. Material design really is great, and for that reason it's a shame that's gonna be inevitably wasted by: - third party customization by the manufacturers - fragmentation of iOS version on android devices, especially in the entry level market - huge flocks of developers with no sense of design at all -internal fragmentation by the too many Google product team themselves Looking at the design per-se, you may be right about its superiority to iOS design, but this stuff doesn't live in a vacuum.